Table 3.
Visit Geographya
| Variable | FN n = 1,099,424 |
Non-FN n = 10,586,863 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drive time from patient postal code to nearest Emergency Department (minutes) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 17.8 | (25.2) | 9.9 | (9.6) |
| Median [IQR] | 9.0 | [3, 23] | 7.0 | [3, 13] |
| Missing | 44,378 | 425,628 | ||
| Drive distance from patient postal code to Emergency Department (km) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 19.0 | (32.1) | 7.6 | (11.1) |
| Median [IQR] | 6.0 | [1, 24] | 4.0 | [2, 8] |
| Missing | 44,378 | 425,628 | ||
| Urban / Rural Continuum (Patient Address) n % | ||||
| Metro (population > 500,000) | 178,715 | 16.3 | 3,673,570 | 34.7 |
| Moderate Metro Influence (immediately surrounding Metro Centres) | 49,293 | 4.5 | 1,338,763 | 12.6 |
| Urban (Population > 25,000 but less than > 500,000) | 66,115 | 6.0 | 1,064,243 | 10.1 |
| Moderate Urban Influence (surrounding urban centres) | 5717 | 0.5 | 198,378 | 1.9 |
| Rural Centre Area (> 10,000 to less than < 25,000) | 150,974 | 13.7 | 538,840 | 5.1 |
| Rural (population less than 10,000 and up to 200 km from a Metro or Urban Centre) | 377,692 | 34.4 | 2,888,163 | 27.3 |
| Rural Remote (> 200 km from a Metro or Urban Centre) | 234,735 | 21.4 | 471,716 | 4.5 |
| Missing | 36,183 | 3.3 | 413,190 | 3.9 |
| Patient Address Area - AHS Zone n % | ||||
| North | 509,990 | 46.4 | 2,195,754 | 20.7 |
| Edmonton | 174,515 | 15.9 | 2,455,812 | 23.2 |
| Central | 156,924 | 14.3 | 1,639,139 | 15.5 |
| Calgary | 143,377 | 13 | 3,106,590 | 29.3 |
| South | 108,277 | 9.8 | 862,415 | 8.1 |
| Missing | 6341 | 0.6 | 327,153 | 3.1 |
| Facility Type n % | ||||
| Tertiary Referral | 124,221 | 11.3 | 1,598,194 | 15.1 |
| Regional Referral | 183,055 | 16.7 | 3,152,477 | 29.8 |
| Community Hospital providing 5 services with < 5000 Inpatient Discharges per year | 357,147 | 32.5 | 2,132,601 | 20.1 |
| Community Hospital providing 3 to 4 services – or providing Emergency and Inpatient with > 600 emergency inpatient discharges per year. | 226,897 | 20.6 | 1,437,449 | 13.6 |
| Community Hospital providing Emergency and Inpatient Services with < 600 inpatient discharges per year. | 131,703 | 12.0 | 804,591 | 7.6 |
| Community Ambulatory Moderate > = 20,000 visits per year | 21,337 | 1.9 | 356,555 | 3.4 |
| Community Ambulatory < 20,000 visits per year | 19,102 | 1.7 | 158,719 | 1.5 |
| Urgent Care Centre | 35,962 | 3.3 | 946,277 | 8.9 |
FN First Nations, non-FN non-First Nations, ED Emergency Department, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range, AHS Alberta Health Services
aAll difference between FN and non-FN are significant at the p = < 0.001 level